This season has been a wild one for Maverick's surfers. The number of swells has to have the usual suspects wondering when they'll have a chance to rest.
The legendary Maverick's session on 12.28.23 is documented by big wave surfer and Mavs regular Luca Padua, giving a chilling sense of the lineup that day.
Lucas Fink, a 25-year-old Brazilian skimboarder, joined Kai Lenny and Lucas Chumbo as the only surfers to chase the swell of the season from Jaws to Maverick's.
Surfers love their superlatives. Best, biggest, longest, gnarliest, you missed it, shoulda been here yesterday, etc. The list goes on. But, exaggeration aside, for a window of time on December 28th, the waves at Mavericks in Half Moon Bay, California were some of the craziest and biggest and .
Dozens of people showed up at Frances Beach in Half Moon Bay to witness the huge waves. There was some debris on the shore and, despite potential danger, some people told us they couldn’t pass up the opportunity.